Improvement in can-openers



J G. WIGGINVS. (Jan-Opener.

No. 219,049. 'Pat ent d Aug. 26, I879.

ATTORNEY NJEI'ERS, PHOYO-LITHQGRAPHEIL WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEFFERSON G. WIGGINS, OF SENECA FALLS, NEW YORK.

IMPRO VEMENT IN CAN-OPENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0- 219,049, dated August26, 1879; application filed February 17, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JEFFERSON G. Wiecrms, of. Seneca Falls, in the countyof Seneca and State of New York, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Gan-Openers; and

I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is arepresentation of a top view of a can,showing my opener applied. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of acan, showing the position of the opening-wire; and Fig. 3 is an enlargedsectional view of one edge of the same.

This invention has relation to can-opening devices; and it consists inthe construction and novel arrangement of the pressed channel in thehead, the wire-opener therein, and the flanged guard or support at themargin of the body passing into the channel of the head, as hereinaftershown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates the head or top ofa can having a guiding-channel, a, pressed into it around its margin,the channel opening downward or toward the body portion, as shown. Thischannel is made large enough to contain the wire I), which is attachedtherein by solder at one end, and is carried around the groove andextended through a perforation therein outside the head, this end beingprovided with a loop, 0, for grasping when the wire-opener is operated.

The body portion B of the can is flanged around the edge which is to beattached to the channel-head, the flange d being narrow and designed tobe pressed up into the channel a under the wire b to till this channeland serve as a support and guard for the wire protecting the latter andholding it to its place.

When the Wire is pulled upward by its ex posed end loop it will tearthrough the guiding-channel around the top, and the centerpiece D canthen be ber'it" upward or removed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a self-opening can, the combination, with a top having an annularchannel, to, around the outer portion thereof and the wire-opener b,seated in said channel, of the flanged margin d of the can-body, set upinto said channel to protect and support the wire, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JEFFERSON Gr. WIGGINS.

